The Mucker - Edgar Rice Burroughs - 图书 - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781535018166 - 2016年6月30日
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The Mucker

The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Mucker is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Originally two stories, The Mucker begun in August 1913 and published by All-Story Weekly in October and November 1914; and The Return of the Mucker begun in January 1916 and published by All-Story Weekly in June and July 1916. Billy Byrne is a low class American born in Chicago's ghetto. He grows up a thief and a mugger. "Billy was a mucker, a hoodlum, a gangster, a thug, a tough." He is not chivalrous nor kind, and has only meager ethics - never giving evidence against a friend or leaving someone behind. He chooses a life of robbery and violence, disrespecting those who work for a living. He has a deep hatred for wealthy society. He trains as a prizefighter but cannot stop drinking. When falsely accused of murder, he flees to San Francisco and is shanghaied aboard a ship. Ironically, enforced sobriety, brutal ship's discipline and productive work improves him. The ship's secret mission is soon enacted - the hijacking of a specific yacht to take a millionaire's daughter, Barbara Harding, for ransom. Billy Byrne brutally beats her suitor, Billy Mallory, leaving him for dead.

介质类型 图书     Paperback Book   (平装胶订图书)
已发行 2016年6月30日
ISBN13 9781535018166
出版商 Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
页数 206
商品尺寸 216 × 280 × 11 mm   ·   489 g
语言 英语  

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